-'■sr6. 
Mr. '.'-'■' * : s planti: ; cle?n 1 less of sheets. 
Stapley's planting y£ 5b palms (34 from Cock's Nursery at Yuma) 
check clean wii . ?■: H; is in fine shape, 
Clean and ac less this year, s on -ho ( " .n lot 
in Phoenix are still alive biri d • y ctcd. The !' . 
Experimental Station h . j ] : in -^r: r;:.t p] - and 
17 shoots left in the nursery; these palms arc apparently clean. 
Mr. Otto, near lie 3a, has 9 palms on his plant ;. all in Johnson 
grass and all too deeply r:l. Mr. '.'. tzler's planting is in 
better condition than j - :g: befor-r; the ground is clean a::i his 
loss this year is very small, loco than 2] per c Bom- 
stead garden is as usual in fine condition. Parlatoria scale 
observed during September. 51 
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POTATO AND TOI-IA^G 
POTATO RJ3ER MOTH (Phthorimaea op erculella Boll.) 
dryland E. ST. Ccry (September 15): late crop cf potatoes rill bo 
almost a + ct=>i less in lower Worcester and £ rs t ' mties. 
Early crop not damaged. 3 fields ; Iowa. Tops on 
others entirely destroyed; all fiold3 injured-. 
SO 
THEN IF AFHH < Ihop.^c^ixh-je. -oseudobr^ e Davis) 
rginia Herbert Sper.ee" (August 28): The ?al e cabbage louse has put 
in an appearance in the plantings of k le. it 
is abundant enough to cause severe damage by stuntir 
plants. 
tHPQRJESD A B3A.3E 70EM (Pieria ppppe L. ) 
achusetts A. I. Bourne (October 22): ?hei rs be n considerable amount 
of late work of the cabbage worms by the larvae of both the im- 
ported cabbage '": ' of the cj 3 sr. ■. Whitcomb, 
of the Market Garden Field Station at i, reported 
proportional abundance of the species at about ! 
at the Coll< - ""- overwhelming proportion cf the 
loopeis to -he larvae of the imported cabbage worm. 
• SOUTHED C; I WC3M ( Pieris r rotodice Boisd. ) 
N. F. " rard (October 1-9): ' Serious outbreak on fall "greens' 1 
in this section. Strar. L; enough the common F raua e is 
not very abundant. 
